Sun xVM Ops Center for Automated Datacenter Management

By DE Editors

Sun Microsystems Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) announced availability and pricing details for the Sun xVM Ops Center, a scalable datacenter automation tool for management of heterogeneous global IT environments. As part of the company’s commitment to the open source community, Sun will also release the source code used to build Sun xVM Ops Center to the OpenxVM.org community under the GNU General Public License version three (GPLv3).

Sun xVM Ops Center reduces datacenter management complexity by combining a range of lifecycle management functionality into one tool. The Center helps simplify discovery, monitoring, operating system provisioning, comprehensive updates and patch management, firmware updates, and hardware management from power up to production in cross-platform Linux- and Solaris-based x86 and SPARC environments.

A distribution of Sun xVM Ops Center will be made available via free download. Sun will also provide ongoing code releases to OpenxVM.org, starting with the contribution of the Common Agent Container source code.

In a second announcement, Sun added a performance boost to mainframe storage virtual technology by enhancing the Sun StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 5 (VSM 5), its mainframe virtual technology that adds 53 percent more throughput from the initial VSM 5 release in mid-2006.

The VSM 5 architecture uses industry leading StorageTek SL8500 tape library and StorageTek T-series tape drives in its operation and optimizes tape resources while enhancing tape application performance. The management of this storage system happens off-load, saving the overworked customer time and money versus competing virtual storage systems.

Go to Sun Microsystems, Inc. for more information on its virtualization solutions, or its storage solutions.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.